Uktar 6, 1372 DR (9:45 AM) Deep Wastes: Lake of Shadows

Kress shoves against the door. He pushes one of them open and walks
in. Seeing the four kuo-toans standing before him holding hands, he
stops and speaks. "Greetings, friends!" he says in Undercommon.

CRACK goes the bolt of lightning, leaping forth from the largest
priestess and singeing Kress. "Ouch!" says Kress. "Hey!"

Igor sighs. "Sounds like they didn't receive a friendly reception. No
surprise there," he says sarcastically

Veracity moves into the room past Kress and steps up to one of them.
She strikes it with the Sword of Kas. Igor sighs. "Sounds like they
didn't receive a friendly reception," he says. He flies down, drawing
his greatsword, and hovers directly behind the priestess Veracity had
just struck, and slashes it powerfully. Yol moves to hide behind the
closed double door. Brianna steps up into the open door and starts to
sing a rousing song to inspire her friends. Kress swings his sword at
the same kuo-toan that Veracity and Igor had struck, killing it with a
single slash. He steps to the side and swings wildly at the next
cleric, missing her twice. Hazen flies down from the balcony and lands
behind the largest cleric, who whips around to face him. Hazen stabs
her with his dagger, doing minor damage. Tebryn chuckles and rubs his
hands together. "If this doesn't break the nerve of those fish-men, I
don't know what will!" He pulls a scroll out of his backpack, steps
up to the railing, and looks down.

The largest cleric guardedly mutters a short prayer and a column of
flame descends, directly onto Hazen - or, so she intended. The gray
dwarf nimbly dodges to the side and is completely unharmed. She glares
with hatred at her foe. The cleric in front of Kress mutters and
touches him. He shudders, but shrugs off the foul magic. The last
remaining cleric starts to conjure a spell, but both Veracity and Igor
alertly strike it with their swords, completely blowing its
concentration.

Veracity strikes the cleric twice more with the Sword of Kas and kills
her. Igor moves slightly to the side and slashes at Kress's foe three
times, connecting only once. Kress slashes the cleric, diverting its
attention from Igor, who adroitly slashes her himself. Kress strikes
twice more, finally felling his foe on his last strike. Hazen flails
three times at the final priestess with his dagger, stabbing her
once. Tebryn reads his scroll and the water in the pool sinks away.
"Yes!" he exclaims, pumping his fist in the air. "So much for your
Sacred Pool, fools!" he calls in Undercommon.

The Kuotoan looks with despair at the pool and back at the intent group
of foes surrounding her. Grimly, she conjures another spell, slightly
afflicting Igor, Hazen, and Kress with her unholy blight.

Veracity walks up to the edge of the pool and looks down. She sees
water, twenty-two feet down. "This is deep!" she comments.

Igor steps up behind the last cleric, directly opposite from Hazen. He
slashes her twice with his greatsword, and she falls.

As Veracity continues to look into the pool, Tebryn comes downstairs and
the others loot the bodies. All four priestesses had magical pincer
staffs. Each lesser cleric also had magical scale mail and a ring, as
well as a nice non-magical platinum ring. The big priestess had a
magical breastplate, three javelins, and a cloak. Tebryn stows all the
equipment in his portable hole and joins Veracity in looking down
into the pool. He points.

"Look!" he says. Veracity stares. "I see nothing," she responds. "It
must be invisible," responds her brother. "It was the model for that
statue out front. Lots of teeth, spines down its back, and glowing
green eyes. It stared at me and went swimming into another cavern."